Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:03:40 -0500 (EST) | From | "C. Scott Ananian" <> | Subject | Re: Conditional SymLinks |
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Hmm. We actually seem to already have this functionality in the kernel -- to some extent, at least.
Following a symlink tonight, I found: [cananian@cananian /lib]# ls -l cpp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Nov 17 20:53 cpp -> ../usr/lib/gcc-lib/*linux*/2.7.2.3.f.1/cpp [cananian@cananian /lib]# ls ../usr/lib/gcc-lib i386-linux i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1 [cananian@cananian gcc-lib]# echo *linux* i386-linux i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1
So it seems that *linux* is a 'magic' string of the type we were discussing. Someone want to chase this down in the kernel and see if there are other 'magic' strings defined? *uid* perhaps? =)
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